Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To prohibit (an attorney) from the practice of law by official action or procedure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In law, to expel from the bar, as a barrister; strike off from the roll of attorneys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law To
expel from thebar , or thelegal profession ; todeprive (anattorney ,barrister , or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such. - verb To exclude someone from something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vicks as yet to serve any real serious time, and he's getting off with a slap on the wrist - he engaged and facilitated an illegal crime that lead to the the torture and death of several animals - that alone should be enough to "disbar" him from playing professionally, if not condemn him to at least 10 years in prison.
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Vicks as yet to serve any real serious time, and he's getting off with a slap on the wrist - he engaged and facilitated an illegal crime that lead to the the torture and death of several animals - that alone should be enough to "disbar" him from playing professionally, if not condemn him to at least 10 years in prison.
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It currently takes an average of more than three years to disbar someone found to be acting unethically in the garbage sector, the report found.
Crime Keeps Grip on Garbage Heather Haddon 2011
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He said it might not be fair to disbar Howes so long after the alleged misconduct took place.
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The Kentucky Bar Association voted to disbar Mr. Chesley, a Cincinnati-based attorney who was one of several lawyers involved in a $200 million 2001 settlement with a company that made the diet drug fen-phen.
Justice in Kentucky 2011
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Give him penalties, fine his brains out, disbar him, mandate any type of sanctions, even assign him some embarrassing community service.
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The Kentucky Bar Association voted to disbar Mr. Chesley, a Cincinnati-based attorney who was one of several lawyers involved in a $200 million 2001 settlement with a company that made the diet drug fen-phen.
Justice in Kentucky 2011
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He said it might not be fair to disbar Howes so long after the alleged misconduct took place.
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He also said that if a bar association decides to disbar any of them, they will have a right to a public hearing and appeals, which could lead to disclosure of new information about how and why the legal framework of interrogation policies was crafted and implemented.
Disbarment of lawyers involved in interrogation policies sought 2009
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Recall, for instance, the effort to disbar former Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee for writing the legal opinions on aggressive interrogations.
Whatever Happened to 9/11? Daniel Henninger 2011
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